Watch List notes:

Various authors. Lot of two (2) titles on Greek art and artifacts. (Rome & Munich, 1992-1996). Includes: (1) The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily. G. Pugliese Carratelli. (Rizzoli, 1996.) Hardbound, 800 pages, more than 1,600 images, 600 in color. Catalogue of a 1996 exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. Contributors focus on the sculpture, painting, architecture, artifacts, literary culture, religious cults and philosophical questings of Magna Graecia, the Greek colonies that flourished along Italy's west coast between the eighth and sixth centuries BC. Exceedingly well presented. (2) Die Griechische Kunst. (Hirmer, Munich, 1992.) Boardman, etc. Hardbound, 209 pages of text, and 300+ plates in color and B&W. German language compendium of Greek art and architecture; includes, coins, sculpture, vases, friezes, etc. TWO BOOKS IN LOT. Very Fine condition.


From the Collection of a Connoisseur.